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Have tried 4 different Cingular phones here (Nokia, Motorola) never get more than 1-3 bars and 3 lasts for a few seconds only. phone cuts out most times

Cingular sucks. 3 to 5 bars doesn't mean you can call; the network won't let you on or drops you. I was a long time AT&T customer who wanted to have a family plan for 3 phones. Cingular insisted I convert to Cingular. Service was much worse; my wife refused to even consider using the new phones. One of the new phones died; Cingular told me to send it to Motorola for service. We bought a new phone with no discounts from Cingular. We moved from Portland during this process; Cingular was fine sending our old AT&T account bills to our new address, but new Cingular account bills were sent to our old address... .and we didn't get them. A late payment letter arrived Saturday, September 3. We called Tuesday, September 6, and were told to pay for two months service by September 23. We sent a check September 6, our service was cut off September 7. We changed to Verizon. 8 cell phones for 3 people bought in the last 8 months. Amazing.

Cingular, the poster child for wireless service schizophrenia. While claiming that they are "Raising the Bar" they have been simultaneously dropping most of my mobile calls. I finally dropped Cingular after putting up with dropped connections for far too long. For what other service would I fork over so much money for such colossally awful service?

I had AT&T for several years with very few dropping of connections and weak signals. I made the sad mistake of switching to Cingular a couple of weeks ago and my phone with Cingular now drops calls repeatedly and has weak signals (Very often there's no signal!) Very frustrating customer service. The same sales employees eager to sign me up with this "great wireless company" have all crawled into their holes and have very little explanation for the poor reception with my new service. Please, please, please stay with AT&T and don't make the same mistake as me! Better yet... switch to another service provider all together. A rotary phone would work better than the current Cingular!